The Peacock Robe was inspired by George Watson Barratt's illustration of the same name which was was painted for the may 1921 issue of Today's Housewife magazine cover in 1921.
It illustrated the serialized feature story by the same name about an orphaned young woman who lives with her aunt in Greenwich Village, New York. Having been brought up in privilege in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the young lady yearns for the better life once available to her family. One evening as she leaves for the opera with an eligible young man, her aunt gives her a magnificent evening cloak decorated with layers of real peacock feathers, one of the few items from her father's voyages over-seas. As she leaves with her date a neighbor warns that "Peacocks are bad luck."
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